tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post4182940650356795180..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Recommended ReadingAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-12941556986951366832017-03-11T07:42:15.801-06:002017-03-11T07:42:15.801-06:00Hamilton and yourself agree with laxity and latitu...Hamilton and yourself agree with laxity and latitude of the General Welfare clause...when it suits your political agenda. I'm not sure highlighting the 10th Amendment is the way you want to go with this issue...Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-48823795693065382972017-03-10T22:47:38.899-06:002017-03-10T22:47:38.899-06:00Hamilton was an unrepentant oligarch. I certainly ...Hamilton was an unrepentant oligarch. I certainly don't put much stock in his vision. His concept wasn't as distasteful as Trump's but he was no champion of the common man.<br /><br />United States vs. Butler is a good jumping off point. Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-62113983666941215742017-03-10T10:46:15.958-06:002017-03-10T10:46:15.958-06:00Recently, John M. Berger said this at Z's site...Recently, John M. Berger said this at Z's site -- and I've come to think so myself:<br /><br /><b><i>Sometimes I just wonder if we are seeking more medical coverage than we are willing or able to pay for. If that’s the case this issue will never be solved. </i></b>Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-75352329481570014932017-03-10T07:06:05.330-06:002017-03-10T07:06:05.330-06:00I think that this is the reality...
Krauthammer: ...I think that this is the reality...<br /><br /><a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-krauthammer-obamacare-entitlement-nobody-republican-or-democ" rel="nofollow">Krauthammer: ObamaCare an ‘Entitlement that Nobody, Republican or Democrat, Will Take Away'</a><br /><br /><i>EXCERPT:<br /><br />KRAUTHAMMER: <b>“The problem is that the big thing here is an entitlement that nobody, Republican or Democrat, will take away. The one thing everybody agreed, conservatives and Republicans, in this election and all the elections is we are not going to change the innovation that you cannot lose your insurance or be priced out of the market if you have a pre-existing condition. Is anybody going to vote to take that away? No. That’s the essence of ObamaCare. That’s what was introduced. And the reason that you have this, even in the Ryan plan, why you have this intrusion into the market and the federal government dictating is because in order to keep that provision you have to create an entitlement." </b></i>Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-25463644529553526302017-03-10T06:02:14.761-06:002017-03-10T06:02:14.761-06:00There is nothing inherently monopolistic about hea...There is nothing inherently monopolistic about healthcare, so Mr. Ducky's Here is incorrect.<br /><br />Look at the history of monopolies. There is a government or some large coercive power behind almost every one.F.A. Hayeknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-27260871808076518612017-03-10T05:26:52.733-06:002017-03-10T05:26:52.733-06:00FT,
All those things are uplifting spiritually and...FT,<br />All those things are uplifting spiritually and can serve to prevent us from sinking into a state of despondence, but they are not policy solutions at the governance level.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-17007238554097982172017-03-10T05:24:46.869-06:002017-03-10T05:24:46.869-06:00Duck,
Do those studies reflect the legal costs of ...Duck,<br />Do those studies reflect the legal costs of defending against a malpractice suit? I doubt it.<br /><br />I hope that you have read Bunkerville's comments above. Bunkerville has a lot of knowledge about health insurance matters.<br />Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-44043122903543464032017-03-10T05:19:12.335-06:002017-03-10T05:19:12.335-06:00I don't suppose I'm getting an explanation...I don't suppose I'm getting an explanation from Ducky...who clearly favors the Hamiltonian approach to the General Welfare clause - also endorsed by Quincy Adams...but opposed by Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.<br /><br />Madison explicitly stating: <i>Some, who have not denied the necessity of the power of taxation, have grounded a very fierce attack against the Constitution, on the language in which it is defined. It has been urged and echoed, that the power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States," amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare. No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction.</i><br /><br />It should also be noted, that immediately following the statement on common defence and general welfare [Article 1, Section 8]....come the <b>enumerated powers</b> of the Federal government.<br /><br />- CICIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07261660740601698500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-10437175170270663172017-03-10T04:17:25.423-06:002017-03-10T04:17:25.423-06:00I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from when...<b><i>I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.<br /><br />My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.<br /><br />He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.<br /><br />Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.<br /><br />The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.<br /><br />The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.<br /><br />The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.<br /><br />The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.</i></b><br /><br />~ Psalm 121 - Holy Bible (KJV)<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-63461188979750666662017-03-10T03:57:43.622-06:002017-03-10T03:57:43.622-06:00For al its toil and torment, broken dreams and bet...For al its toil and torment, broken dreams and betrayed ideals life is always worth living –– even at the worst of times. Let us try not to waste our precious time in fruitless argumentation over trivial details, bitter denunciation, mockery, or wanton dissipation. <br /><br />Shelley here reminds of what we all just face sooner or later –– and of the heartbreak felt by those left behind when all opportunity to move and are amends becomes forever lost.<br /><br /><br /><b>__ The Cold Earth Slept Below __<br /><br /><i>The cold earth slept below;<br />____ Above the cold sky shone;<br />______ And all around,<br />______ With a chilling sound,<br />From caves of ice and fields of snow<br />The breath of night like death did flow<br />______ Beneath the sinking moon.<br /><br />The wintry hedge was black;<br />____ The green grass was not seen;<br />______ The birds did rest<br />______ On the bare thorn’s breast,<br />Whose roots, beside the pathway track,<br />Had bound their folds o’er many a crack<br />______ Which the frost had made between.<br /><br />Thine eyes glow’d in the glare<br />____ Of the moon’s dying light;<br />______ As a fen-fire’s beam<br />______ On a sluggish stream<br />Gleams dimly—so the moon shone there,<br />And it yellow’d the strings of thy tangled hair,<br />______ That shook in the wind of night.<br /><br />The moon made thy lips pale, beloved;<br />____ The wind made thy bosom chill;<br />______ The night did shed<br />______ On thy dear head<br />Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie<br />Where the bitter breath of the naked sky<br />______ Might visit thee at will.</i></b><br /><br />~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-91725619585925952732017-03-10T02:55:35.689-06:002017-03-10T02:55:35.689-06:00Mary Baker Eddy said
"There is no life, trut...<b>Mary Baker Eddy said</b><br /><br />"There is no life, truth, intelligence or substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is all-in-al. Spirit is immortal truth. Matter is mortal error. Spirit is God, and Man is His image and likeness, therefore Man is not material., he is spiritual."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-78276020463510265042017-03-09T21:42:45.646-06:002017-03-09T21:42:45.646-06:00Most states have enacted a cap on non-economic dam...Most states have enacted a cap on non-economic damages.<br /><br />Why hasn't it been reflected in lower premiums?<br /><br />Are the studies that peg the malpractice costs at about 4% of healt care expenditures to be believed?Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-45112575109988120092017-03-09T20:41:22.778-06:002017-03-09T20:41:22.778-06:00Kid,
I think so, too. Did you see Bunkerville'...Kid, <br />I think so, too. Did you see Bunkerville's above comment about medical liability insurance? Scroll up to 9:00 AM, March 9. <br /><br />Bunkerville made several other comments, all of them worth reading and contemplating. Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-26323458591389179822017-03-09T20:19:12.854-06:002017-03-09T20:19:12.854-06:00Stop me if you've heard this... Until Tort Ref...Stop me if you've heard this... Until Tort Reform is included this will be a stinking pile...Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-69888096458985029672017-03-09T18:21:36.039-06:002017-03-09T18:21:36.039-06:001919?
Penned in reaction to WW1 ad the subsequent...1919?<br /><br />Penned in reaction to WW1 ad the subsequent influenza pandemic?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-52631236416141759002017-03-09T18:12:52.612-06:002017-03-09T18:12:52.612-06:00"Like the diet prescribed by doctors, which n...<b><i>"Like the diet prescribed by doctors, which neither restores the strength of the patient nor allows him to succumb, so these doles that you are now distributing, neither suffice to ensure your safety nor allow you to renounce them and try something else."</i></b><br /><br />~ Demosthenes (384-322 B. C.)<br /><br /><b>And THIS was reportedly said <i>three-hundred-fifty years</i> before the birth of CHRIST!</b><br /> <br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-70330113337653155052017-03-09T18:09:07.192-06:002017-03-09T18:09:07.192-06:00No one has made the point that needs to be made in...No one has made the point that needs to be made in ths debate more tellingly than KIPLING, of course. In my never humble opinion the following could never be posted or pondered often enough. We should remember he published these sage observations in NINETEEN-NINETEEN! <br /><br /><br />As I pass through my incarnations <br />___ in every age and race,<br />I make my proper prostrations <br />___ to the Gods of the Market Place.<br />Peering through reverent fingers <br />___ I watch them flourish and fall,<br />And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, <br />___ I notice, outlast them all.<br /><br />We were living in trees when they met us. <br />___ They showed us each in turn<br />That Water would certainly wet us, <br />___ as Fire would certainly burn:<br /><b>But we found them lacking in Uplift, <br />___ Vision and Breadth of Mind,<br />So we left them to teach the Gorillas <br />___ while we followed the March of Mankind</b>.<br /><br />We moved as the Spirit listed. <br />___ They never altered their pace,<br />Being neither cloud nor wind-borne <br />___ like the Gods of the Market Place,<br />But they always caught up with our progress, <br />___ and presently word would come<br />That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, <br />___ or the lights had gone out in Rome.<br /><br />With the Hopes that our World is built on <br />___ they were utterly out of touch,<br />They denied that the Moon was Stilton; <br />___ they denied she was even Dutch;<br />They denied that Wishes were Horses; <br />___ they denied that a Pig had Wings;<br />So we worshipped the Gods of the Market <br />___ Who promised these beautiful things.<br /><br />When the Cambrian measures were forming, <br />___ They promised perpetual peace.<br />They swore, if we gave them our weapons, <br />___ that the wars of the tribes would cease.<br /><b>But when we disarmed They sold us <br />___ and delivered us bound to our foe,<br />And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: <br />___ <i>"Stick to the Devil you know." </i></b><br /><br />On the first Feminian Sandstones <br />___ we were promised the Fuller Life<br />(Which started by loving our neighbour <br />___ and ended by loving his wife)<br /><b>Till our women had no more children <br />___ and the men lost reason and faith,<br />And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: <br />___ <i>"The Wages of Sin is Death."</i></b> <br /><br /><b>In the Carboniferous Epoch <br />___ we were promised abundance for all, <br />By robbing selected Peter <br />___ to pay for collective Paul; <br />But, though we had plenty of money, <br />___ there was nothing our money could buy, <br />And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: <br />___ <i>"If you don't work you die." </i></b><br /><br />Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, <br />___ and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew<br />And the hearts of the meanest were humbled <br />___ and began to believe it was true<br />That All is not Gold that Glitters, <br />___ and Two and Two make Four<br />And the Gods of the Copybook Headings <br />___ limped up to explain it once more.<br /><br />As it will be in the future, <br />__ it was at the birth of Man<br />There are only four things certain <br />___ since Social Progress began. <br />That the Dog returns to his Vomit <br />___ and the Sow returns to her Mire, <br />And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger <br />___ goes wabbling back to the Fire;<br /><br />And that after this is accomplished, <br />___ and the brave new world begins<br /><b>When all men are paid for existing <br />___ and no man must pay for his sins, <br />As surely as Water will wet us, <br />___ as surely as Fire will burn, <br />The Gods of the Copybook Headings <br />___ with terror and slaughter return!</b> <br /><br />The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919)<br />~ Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-25096854090363242552017-03-09T18:04:02.944-06:002017-03-09T18:04:02.944-06:00CI,
Also, that it is human nature to "vote&qu...CI,<br />Also, that it is human nature to "vote" one's own entitlements.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-8543705533565211042017-03-09T18:03:28.714-06:002017-03-09T18:03:28.714-06:00CI,
But why do we take very....single....Leftist.....CI,<br /><i>But why do we take very....single....Leftist....program, and try to re-brand it?</i><br /><br />I don't have an answer except for the adage about the frog being boiled. It must be that almost all are subject to that concept.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-70275307636370896002017-03-09T18:02:00.194-06:002017-03-09T18:02:00.194-06:00I don't know what the answer is. Do know that ...I don't know what the answer is. Do know that most hospitals are on a razor thin profit margin if at all. Many have merged in an attempt to stave off bankruptcy. Because of all the requirements of Obamacare, huge number of Docs have become employees of the hospitals, in order to meet all of the requirements. This was all intentional in order to achieve a VA like health system. It was created to fail and take us with it. Bunkervillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427978686579892380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-35965042654570723912017-03-09T17:48:12.287-06:002017-03-09T17:48:12.287-06:00Ducky - Explain to me the Constitutional definitio...Ducky - Explain to me the Constitutional definition of "general welfare" and then explain to me the enumerated powers.<br /><br />Using your logic, you can make <i>any</i> argument regarding general welfare...given the manner in which Social Justice Warriors bandy about the term "right".<br /><br />Ironically, there are actual Constiutional rights that the Left doesn't believe are applicable to the Citizen.......Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-29558236280418938442017-03-09T17:43:19.010-06:002017-03-09T17:43:19.010-06:00CI, if life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ...CI, if life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are indeed founding values and the Constitution demands providing for the general welfare, then it isn't unreasonable to make health care a mandate.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-23747291343557567582017-03-09T17:40:38.709-06:002017-03-09T17:40:38.709-06:00AOW - Of course. It didn't start with the ACA....AOW - Of course. It didn't start with the ACA.....it didn't even start with Social Security. But why do we take very....single....Leftist....program, and try to re-brand it?<br /><br />Why do we convince ourselves that the next GOP 'thing' [tea party, Trump, etc] is the next Conservative revolution.....when all it ends up being is warmed over Socialism? And then we argue about it.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-40227878938947734102017-03-09T17:21:54.913-06:002017-03-09T17:21:54.913-06:00CI,
Much of what the federal government has been d...CI,<br />Much of what the federal government has been doing for years has been outside the bounds of what the federal government should be doing in the first place. <br /><br />The frog has been on the boil for decades! <br /><br /> I'm not sure that there is any going back. That's my realistic view, anyway. And it's not to say that I approve.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-6864129509626254032017-03-09T17:11:30.866-06:002017-03-09T17:11:30.866-06:00The ACA s not entirely "rotten," as many...<i>The ACA s not entirely "rotten," as many who think of themselves as Conservative-Libertarians would contend. </i><br /><br />We would contend such, since we firmly believe that there is no <i>Constitutional authority</i> for the <i>Federal</i> government to enact such a mandated measure. In any form.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.com